📋Easy Cheddar Drop Biscuits

easy biscuits made with cheddar cheese and chives

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📋Easy Cheddar Drop Biscuits

These easy cheddar drop biscuits are soft, buttery, fluffy, and irresistibly delicious! You’re only 25 minutes away from these buttery, cheesiest biscuits. Just mix ingredients, drop a spoonful of dough on the tray, and bake! Best biscuit EVER!

Prep Time10

Cook Time15

Total Time25

Course: Side Dish, Sides

Cuisine: American

Servings: biscuits

Calories: 208kcal

Author: Jyothi Rajesh

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
1 ½ cups sharp cheddar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt adjust quantity according to taste
1 ½ teaspoon garlic powder
4 tablespoon unsalted cold butter cubed
⅔ cup whole milk
1 egg

For Brushing

3 tablespoon unsalted butter melted
1 tablespoon parsley chopped
1 tablespoon chives chopped (can use green onions)
¾ teaspoon garlic powder

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (or 200-degree centigrade) and line a baking tray with parchment paper (or grease it with oil).
Start by adding all-purpose flour, baking powder, kosher salt, and garlic powder to a bowl. Mix well.
Add chilled and cubed butter to the flour mixture.
Using your fingers or a pastry cutter mix butter into the flour mix.
Break butter into the flour mix until the mixture looks a little crumbly.
In a cup whisk together whole milk and one large egg until combined.
Pour the milk-egg mix into the flour mix.
Add grated sharp cheddar cheese.
Give it a quick mix using a rubber spatula. DO NOT OVERMIX. If there is dry flour, add a teaspoon or more milk to blend the dry ingredient fluffy.
STOP mixing the dough as soon as the dough comes together. Over mixing will cause biscuits to be tough and flat.
Wet with water with a large spoon or cookie scoop, scoop out the dough, and drop it on a baking tray lined with parchment paper or well-greased with oil. Drop biscuits with a 2-inch space between each other.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 8 to 10 minutes.
While biscuits bake in the oven in a small bowl mix melted butter, garlic powder, fresh parsley, and chives.
Mix. This will be used for brushing over biscuits.
Once biscuits come out of the oven, immediately brush them with butter herb and mix generously all over. Bake for 5 more minutes.
If there is leftover butter herb mix, give biscuits a second brush just before serving. Biscuits will turn rich, buttery, and cheesy delicious!

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Notes

Don't skip lining the baking tray with parchment paper to avoid biscuits sticking to the bottom of the tray.
Ensure butter is chilled and cut into smaller cubes. Smaller cubes = easier to break. Useful tip - Grate chilled butter directly over the flour, and mix. It's easy to mix.
Use whole milk. Fat in the milk will help make biscuits flakier and tender.
Do not overmix! STOP MIXING as soon as the dough comes together.
Self-rising flour works best!
Generously brush melted butter-herb mix on the biscuits. This will make biscuits tender and rich in taste. More butter = richer and better-tasting biscuits.

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that the nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.

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